NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Adding a clinical breast exam to screening mammography increases breast cancer detection rates, but it also increases rates of falsely positive results, Canadian ...

0.8 cm Mammograms can detect many other non-invasive cancers (such as DCIS) which are less than 1.0 cm 1 cm Average size of cancer found by women who practice regular breast self-exam. 2.62 cm Average ...

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This is how I ended up in a roomful of women, all massaging our breasts.

Mammograms can detect the presence of breast arterial calcification, which is associated with a higher risk of future heart attacks and stroke.

I had breast cancer two times, at 35 and 39. Both times, I found it myself. Both times I had it, I was younger than the age people typically started having mammograms Updated guidelines recommend ...

You might have a lot of questions going into your first mammogram — and we don't blame you. Getting your breasts squeezed by a giant machine is intimidating at best, especially if you've never had a ...

Having an annual screening mammogram is an important step in detecting breast cancer, particularly in its early stages when it tends to be more easily treatable. But many women dread having to do it ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Like many young women in their early 40s, Michelle Swaggard ...

Did you know that breast cancer is the most common cancer among women, affecting about 1 in 8 in their lifetime? According to a WHO study released in March this year, around 2.3 million women were ...

ATLANTA (AP) -- After more than a decade of urging by doctors that women older than 40 should receive mammograms yearly, few actually do so, according to a large cancer study. Only 6 percent of women ...